Ireland’s feminist culture minister is pushing a policy to ensure that half of all plays staged in Ireland are written by women within five years as part of a broader “gender equality” campaign.
The head of Qatar Airways has issued “heartfelt apologies” for saying that a woman could not do his job because it was too challenging.
In recent weeks, the Boy Scouts of America announced the organization would admit girls to take part in its programs. And now, Charisma News reports that condoms will be made available for its 2019 World Scout Jamboree in West Virginia and alcohol permitted in some areas.
Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep, and Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman were among the famous Hollywood luminaries appended to a letter putting world leaders “on notice” about gender inequality.
A Sydney barber has been sued by a woman after refusing to cut her daughter’s hair on the grounds that he was only trained to cut men’s hair.
Police in Derbyshire have severed ties with their own male voice choir and taken away their rehearsal room on the grounds it does not promote ‘gender equality’.
Cooking, cleaning mums will be banned in advertisements across the UK from next year, following a study which claimed traditional gender roles are “harmful and outdated”.
A panel of distinguished policy experts discussed the deteriorating situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran on Friday, emphasizing the need for the international community to hold Iran accountable for numerous, ongoing atrocities.
London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton has demanded people stop using the word ‘fireman’, claiming that the term is putting women off choosing firefighting as a career.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court by the girls parents, claims the students have been discriminated against due to their gender, according to Title IX.
A group of feminist performing artists ‘galloped’ seven kilometres through Stockholm past a number of the city’s statues on Saturday to protest “patriarchal” statues of men on horseback.
A new United Nations survey of male attitudes toward “gender equality” finds precious little appetite for it across the Middle East.
Sweden’s environment minister has said reducing car numbers is a feminist issue as well as a matter of meeting carbon emissions targets, saying male drivers occupy space in Swedish cities ‘at women’s expense’.
The rate of suicide for men under the age of 30 increased last year, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed.
A feminist filmmaker has sparked a worldwide backlash by highlighting the extent to which the women’s rights movement undermines gender equality and prevents men from having a voice.
Despite years of research documenting biological differences between men and women, only 5 per cent of the most cited gender sociology papers acknowledge differences exist, a senior sociologist has found.
Men should be banned from running for Parliamentary constituencies on behalf of the Labour Party until there are an equal number of male and female Labour politicians, a Labour MP has said.
Ivanka Trump held a question-and-answer session with students who asked her if she plans to take a government position if her father is elected president. She responded, “We’ll see,” but added she is a mother of three children and runs two businesses.
A group of women walked topless in Los Angeles, New York, and several other cities in the U.S. and throughout the world on Sunday for “Go Topless Day” in order to promote gender equality.
(AFP) Paris – t would be “unconstitutional” for France to pass a law banning the burkini, and such a move could cause irreparable harm, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve warned in an interview published online late Sunday. Speaking to French daily
Mothers who return to work earn less per hour than their male counterparts as they work fewer hours resulting in fewer promotional opportunities, the Institute for Fiscal studies has found. Despite personal choice being a clear factor, calls have been
Despite what you’re seeing on every cable network, on the cover of every newspaper, and as the lead story on every website, the White House has an important message for women and it isn’t about terrorism and radical Islam. It’s about “gender inequality” in America.
Veteran actor Sir Michael Caine has weighed in on the so-called gender pay gap in Hollywood, explaining that the idea that female actresses earn less than their male counterparts for the same work is, in his view, “rubbish.”
Actress and model Emily Ratajkowski says her good looks have caused psychological suffering her whole life. Now that she’s known as one of the sexiest women in her industry, Ratajkowski is speaking out.
Emma Watson is the latest celebrity to be exposed in the Panama Papers leaks. Apparently she keeps chunks of her estimated $70 million fortune stashed away in an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands. Personally, I am more than
Pop superstar and style icon Madonna has fired back at critics of her risqué Met Ball gala outfit, explaining in a social media post that her butt- and breast-exposing getup was meant as a political statement about women’s rights.
Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep, and Charlize Theron are among a group of influential entertainers who have signed an open letter urging world leaders to fight for international gender equality.
Ynetnews reports: 360 combat soldiers marched excitedly onto the parade grounds of Bahad 1 (site of the IDF’s officer training school) to officially become combat officers, after completing their grueling eight-month course. Of the hundreds of candidates, one could easily pick
A large-scale analysis of 29 studies has revealed a “sexuality pay gap” between gay and straight women, with heterosexual earning significantly less that their homosexual counterparts. The revelation comes on the same day the British government announced their plans to
A three-woman delegation representing a UN working group on discrimination against women visited the United States for 10 days in December to prepare a report on gender equality in America, and reportedly were “appalled” by what they found.
While discussing wage inequality for women in Hollywood, actress Sandra Bullock said she’s glad the film industry is being held accountable for its business practices.
Fifty dollars: that’s the rate you’d get for putting your children in a pro-Hillary Clinton video directed by a Democrat activist named Luke Montgomery, a.k.a. The Artist Formerly Known As Sissyfag—a man whose career has been repeatedly having children say obscene things on camera.
A Labour MP has angrily dismissed the idea of having a parliamentary debate on issues affecting men, such as high suicide rates, as “frankly laughable” and suggested the MP who proposed it did so because he is anti-women. She then claimed to
On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown, intoning, “The inequities that have plagued our state and have burdened women forever are slowly being resolved with this kind of bill,” signed the California Fair Pay Act, which aims to ensure that business pay female employees equally who perform “substantially equivalent work” as males.
Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard introduced a new conversation regarding feminism this week, arguing the term is divisive and “separates” women from men.
Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that the election of a female president would “break that glass ceiling for girls” and eliminate “one of the last barriers to imagination, aspiration” in an interview set to
Thirteen-year-0ld Disney star Rowan Blanchard penned an essay on “intersectional feminism” over the weekend that had at least one Hollywood star praising the young actress for her insight. Blanchard, who plays the daughter of a grown-up Corey Matthews on the Disney
The struggle against deeply entrenched misogyny in Afghanistan continues years after heavy international community and Afghan government investments in women’s education began, following the defeat of the Taliban at the hands of U.S.-led forces in 2001.
Actress Claire Danes has long been an advocate for gender equality in Hollywood, and the 36-year-old starlet says being a woman in her line of work is challenging.
It’s not every day one of Hollywood’s leading men issues a plea to see more penis and butt on screen.
